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Posted by ChrisH at 03/30/2001 12:15 PM EST


Engineer on team #330, Beach 'Bots, from Hope Chapel Academy and NASA JPL, J & F Machine, Raytheon, et al.


In Reply to: By the way .............
Posted by Ed Sparks on 03/29/2001 3:43 PM EST:



: According to my data, there are 19 teams attending the finals that have no regional experience. Those of us who have attended regionals should make an extra effort to share our experience with them.

: Any ideas on how ?

At San Jose Team 192 (Gunn) hosted a "strategy session" Thursday night that all teams were invited to. Teams were encouraged to share what their robot could do and more importantly what was learned at Southern Cal or other regionals. This would probably be a little cumbersome at Nationals, it would probably take all night with that many teams.

Another suggestion is to work with the teams in your practice sessions to structure the session. We ran a practice round for the first two minutes with a strategy that all the robots could participate in. After the two minutes, we arrainged times to use the various field parts. We wanted to work both goals and big balls. So we took the goals for two minutes and let one of the other teams use them the rest of the time, while we played with big balls. As I recall the other two teams weren't interested in doing either as they were limbo/wedge bots. If they had wanted to we would have arrainged it.

If you do this, please try to work it out so that all of the teams have at least some access to what they need to try out ALL of their functions. In our last qualifying round at San Jose we were with a team that had never had two goals in their possesion to even attempt balancing them. That's a heck of a time to find out that you can't do something.

They should have been able to work something out during practice. But either the other teams didn't co-operate or they didn't think of asking.

Remeber what your Mother always said "Now play nice and share". This is where you put the Gracious in "Gracious Professionalism".

Chris Husmann
Team 330 the Beach'Bots


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